Politics & Government News

8:29 AM on Saturday, February 21

President Donald Trump said Saturday that he was raising the global tariff he wants to impose to 15%, up from 10% he had announced a day earlier

8:19 AM on Saturday, February 21

Trump says he is going to raise global tariff to 15%, up from 10%, after Supreme Court defeat

8:06 AM on Saturday, February 21

Business chiefs and government leaders are poring over the fallout of a U.S. Supreme Court decision that invalidated some tariffs by President Donald Trump's administration and his response to it

7:36 AM on Saturday, February 21

Arab and Muslim countries are sharply condemning comments by the U.S. ambassador to Israel, who said in an interview that Israel had a right to much of the Middle East

5:30 AM on Saturday, February 21

On Saturday, governors gather for the annual National Governors Association dinner after a tense week

5:07 AM on Saturday, February 21

5:07 AM on Saturday, February 21

Immigrations and Customs Enforcement is encountering some pushback as it undertakes a $45 billion expansion of detention centers

5:06 AM on Saturday, February 21

At least 20 communities with large warehouses across the U.S. have become stealth targets for Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s $45-billion expansion of detention centers

5:02 AM on Saturday, February 21

In the 1970s, the agency that provides health care to Native Americans sterilized thousands of women without their full and informed consent

4:30 AM on Saturday, February 21

A woman adopted as a toddler by an American war veteran, who he found in the 1970s in an Iranian orphanage and raised as a Christian, is being threatened with deportation to Iran, a country notoriously dangerous for Christians and on the brink of war with the United States

4:12 AM on Saturday, February 21

The Pentagon and the Energy Department have airlifted a small nuclear reactor from California to Utah, demonstrating what they say is the potential for the U.S. to quickly deploy nuclear power for military and civilian use

4:07 AM on Saturday, February 21

Some Republicans seemed relieved at the news that the Supreme Court had struck down President Donald Trump’s global tariff regime

2:39 AM on Saturday, February 21

About 3,000 people have joined a far-right march in the French city of Lyon after a 23-year-old nationalist activist died from a beating last week

1:11 AM on Saturday, February 21

Hong Kong’s government is offering to buy back homeownership rights from residents displaced by last year’s deadly Wang Fuk Court fire

9:13 PM on Friday, February 20

Businesses face a new wave of uncertainty after the Supreme Court struck down tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump under an emergency powers law and Trump vowed to work around the ruling to keep his tariffs in place

9:08 PM on Friday, February 20

The Supreme Court on Friday struck down President Donald Trump’s biggest and boldest tariffs

9:25 AM on Friday, February 20

The two best bets to win the gold medal in women’s halfpipe skiing at the Winter Olympics were born in the United States

8:43 AM on Friday, February 20

A partisan battle to redraw U.S. House districts is raging in some states, even as campaigns get underway

5:43 AM on Wednesday, February 11

9:08 AM on Monday, February 2